Bayesian inference in Birnbaum-Saunders regression

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 179-193

  Tsionas, Efthymios G ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Life distributions; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Posterior predictive distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034771782     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-100001567     Document Type: Article

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